Here we document most of the slots that are only available for suffix objects. Some slots are shared by suffix and group objects, they are documented in Predicate Slots.
Also see Suffix Classes.
transient-child ¶This is the abstract superclass of transient-suffix and transient-group.
This is where the shared if* and inapt-if* slots (see Predicate Slots),
the level slot (see Enabling and Disabling Suffixes), and the advice
and advice* slots (see Slots of transient-suffix) are defined.
parent The object for the parent group.
transient-suffix ¶key The key, a key vector or a key description string.
command The command, a symbol.
transient Whether to stay transient. See Transient State.
format The format used to display the suffix in the popup buffer.
It must contain the following %-placeholders:
%k For the key.
%d For the description.
%v For the infix value. Non-infix suffixes don’t have a value.
description The description, either a string or a function, which is
called with zero or one argument (the suffix object), and returns a
string.
face Face used for the description. In simple cases it is easier
to use this instead of using a function as description and adding
the styling there. face is appended using add-face-text-property.
show-help A function used to display help for the suffix. If
unspecified, the prefix controls how help is displayed for its
suffixes. See also function transient-show-help.
summary The summary displayed in the echo area, or as a tooltip.
If this is nil, which it usually should be, the first line of the
documentation string is used instead. See transient-show-summary
for details.
definition A command, which is used if the body is omitted when
defining a command using transient-define-suffix.
The following two slots are experimental. They can also be set for a group, in which case they apply to all suffixes in that group, except for suffixes that set the same slot to a non-nil value.
advice A function used to advise the command. The advise is called
using (apply advice command args), i.e., it behaves like an "around"
advice.
advice* A function used to advise the command. Unlike advice, this
advises not only the command body but also its interactive spec. If
both slots are non-nil, advice is used for the body and advice* is
used for the interactive form. When advising the interactive spec,
called using (funcall advice #'advice-eval-interactive-spec spec).
transient-infix ¶Some of these slots are only meaningful for some of the subclasses. They are defined here anyway to allow sharing certain methods.
argument The long argument, e.g., --verbose.
shortarg The short argument, e.g., -v.
value The value. Should not be accessed directly.
init-value Function that is responsible for setting the object’s
value. If bound, then this is called with the object as the only
argument. Usually this is not bound, in which case the object’s
primary transient-init-value method is called instead.
unsavable Whether the value of the suffix is not saved as part of
the prefixes.
multi-value For options, whether the option can have multiple
values. If this is non-nil, then the values are read using
completing-read-multiple by default and if you specify your own
reader, then it should read the values using that function or
similar.
Supported non-nil values are:
rest for an option that can have multiple values. This is
useful e.g., for an -- argument that indicates that all remaining
arguments are files (such as git log -- file1 file2).
In the list returned by transient-args such an option and its
values are represented by a single list of the form (ARGUMENT
. VALUES).
repeat for an option that can be specified multiple times.
In the list returned by transient-args each instance of the option
and its value appears separately in the usual from, for example:
("--another-argument" "--option=first" "--option=second").
In both cases the option’s values have to be specified in the
default value of a prefix using the same format as returned by
transient-args, e.g., ("--other" "--o=1" "--o=2" ("--" "f1" "f2")).
always-read For options, whether to read a value on every invocation.
If this is nil, then options that have a value are simply unset and
have to be invoked a second time to set a new value.
allow-empty For options, whether the empty string is a valid value.
history-key The key used to store the history. This defaults to the
command name. This is useful when multiple infixes should share the
same history because their values are of the same kind.
reader The function used to read the value of an infix. Not used
for switches. The function takes three arguments, PROMPT,
INITIAL-INPUT and HISTORY, and must return a string.
prompt The prompt used when reading the value, either a string or a
function that takes the object as the only argument and which
returns a prompt string.
choices A list of valid values, or a function that returns such a
list. The latter is not implemented for transient-switches, because
I couldn’t think of a use-case. How exactly the choices are used
varies depending on the class of the suffix.
transient-variable ¶variable The variable.
transient-switches ¶argument-format The display format. Must contain %s, one of the
choices is substituted for that. E.g., --%s-order.
argument-regexp The regexp used to match any one of the switches.
E.g., \\(--\\(topo\\|author-date\\|date\\)-order\\).